#evo 2022

A.K.I. in a F.A.N.G hoodie 💜😘💜😘🥰🥰💜💜. I drew this back in June 2022…when no one had any idea what she would be like lol

A little story about this picture. Last year in the spring of 2022, Serroto (admin of the FANG discord) pitched me his T-Shirt idea of FANG flying around the world ala SF2 World map style. It was to help fund MetalQueerSolid (MQS), SFV Warlord FANG competitive player from the UK, to go to EVO 2022. Of course I had to do this. Not only it’s a fun concept to do but is to help an incredible FANG main to a major FGC event. Plus, it was the last year for Street Fighter V to be on the grand arena stage for EVO. I had to take part in the last hurrah for F.A.N.G. Actually, that wasn’t the last F.A.N.G hurrah, but I won’t get into it for this post 💜💜

This is the result of the T-Shirt designs:

https://matcherino.com/tournaments/21411

One for regular FANG, the other is Mech FANG with Color #6, which MQS used.

Later on, hoodies were added, which came in around mid June 2022, so shortly after the SF6 full roster leak. I decided make this fanart of AKI wearing said hoodie to help boost interest in helping MQS. At the time, I thought it would be a cute idea but also maybe out of character for AKI. I was thinking, “No way this serious edgy looking character is going to wear something that has her dorky teacher/adoptive father on it lol.” To be fair, no one back in 2022 and more than half of 2023 didn’t know what AKI’s personality was going to be like. Fast forward today, it seems very likely she would wear something like this, considering how much she loves FANG. Would she support FANG mains? She probably would…just as long as they don’t get too close to her Master lol 😅😜😅😜💜💜

Anyway, the campaign was successful and we got MQS to EVO 2022. I had the pleasure of meeting him and other incredible FANG mains 💜💜

Showtime!